CRN Cloud News

HPE CEO Meg Whitman discusses the company's decision to spin off 'non-core' software assets in an $8.8 billion deal with Micro Focus as well as how HPE is positioned against Dell after its acquisition of EMC.

As a startup, the CRM giant used the novel cloud-delivery model as justification to break from channel compensation orthodoxy, denying resale commissions to partners. But the born-in-the-cloud solution providers that hitched their wagons early on to Salesforce certainly aren't complaining.

Concerns over privacy and security in the cloud have hit fever pitch, spurred by a battle over an encrypted iPhone and ongoing worries over government access to personal information. It's up to solution providers to be the first line of defense.